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    Hello everyone,

    I am currently facing a challenge when multicasting an older desktop (Lenovo M800). When the desktop is imaged using a deploy task it will complete as expected (just take a fair amount of time). When it is grouped with more modern computers it will all start out fine, it will make it through the first phase of part clone but as soon as it gets to the resizing phase, the modern computers will quickly complete this task, while the older desktop takes a minute.

    As soon as the modern computers resize their disks, wait at the last partclone screen for ~30 seconds, they will then complete and go to postdownload scripts. The desktop however hangs on resizing for around a minute, and by the time it makes it to the last partclone screen it will wait indefinitely as I believe it is left behind.

    From the log perspective (/opt/fog/log/multicast.log) I see that as soon as the modern computer finishes it begins stating “$Groupname is no longer running”. On the contrary the multicast task will continue to show in the GUI for the stuck host.

    I have adjusted UDPCAST MAXWAIT setting but it seems this just affects the first screen. I have also tried rebooting the stuck host, and it will return to the multicast screen and continue to wait indefinitely.

    FOG Version: 1.5.10.1726

    I am looking for input on how others have dealt with this before.

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    @george1421 I see now and you’re right as my clients are all legacy boot/BIOS boot non UEFI and would not benefit from the client-arch examination.

    I’ve already declarations set for each host in my dhcpd.conf file in terms if MAC to IP and so adding another field of filename “some boot loader file” won’t be impossible.

    Thanks you for this exercise as I’ve learned some very important things here.

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